Leo

21 year old guy trying to get a BSME with a minor in Aerospace Engineering. Been with my girlfriend for five years. I am VP of The Self Made Men and FTM Magazine

[sassp0t]

Hey followers! I designed a t shirt that I thought was pretty clever. The money generated from this will go towards my savings for top surgery. Order if you can, or signal boost!

[journeyintomanhood]

[leo-is-back]

leo-is-back:“ “tuckitaway:“ interestsofatransman: “ journeyintomanhood: “Honestly, I just can’t get excited about another white, in-shape, conventionally attractive trans dude getting praise in the...

I probably over-reacted slightly, but we've been getting a lot of flack from people for not including TMOC and it is extremely frustrating.

I didn't mean to take out the frustration on you. Like I said, I'm sick and tired of this crap from the community I'm trying to serve. :/

[journeyintomanhood]

[leo-is-back]

tuckitaway:“ interestsofatransman: “ journeyintomanhood: “Honestly, I just can’t get excited about another white, in-shape, conventionally attractive trans dude getting praise in the media for being...

All I'm going to say to this is that FTM Magazine is a SUBMISSION BASED magazine. We have tried MANY times to get TPOC to be featured in our magazine, and they have always turned us down, or dropped out last minute.

Will, you know I appreciate you, but I'm sick and tired of getting told I'm not doing something that I am doing.

[leo-is-back]

Come talk to me!

[transguys]

Robert Eads Day

[kingdomheartstwo-deactivated201]

reminder that your childhood faves like meowth and yugi’s grandpa were played by an intersex trans woman who wrote comics and developed models for video games

[jupitersolstice-deactivated2019]

[thespookyprofessor]

Template for Preferred Name/Pronouns Letter to Teachers:

Dear Professor [name],

My name is [Preferred name], and I will be attending your course [blank] on [days] at [time] this [term]. I am transgender and have not yet legally changed my name. On your roster is my legal name, [Legal name]. I would greatly appreciate it if you refer to me as [Preferred name] and use [pronouns] when referring to me. Thank you for your understanding, and I look forward to starting your course next week.

Sincerely,

~[Preferred name]

[transstudent]

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[transstudent]

It shouldn’t even be a question if parental support is a factor in the health and wellbeing of trans youth.

[transstudent]

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We are hosting a first-of-a-kind scholarship opportunity for transgender, gender nonconforming, and gender diverse students! Scholarships will be between $500 and $2,000 depending on donations. We will be offering at least three scholarships focusing on trans youth activism. You can learn more about the scholarships here.

[transstudent]

UPDATE: We will be hosting the scholarships! However, we need more funding to make each scholarship enough to support a student and the scholarship program as a whole sustainable and for multiple years.

FACT: If each of our followers on Tumblr donated just $1, we’d have four times what we’re asking for and could keep the program going for several years.

[kruczynskijoy-deactivated201801]

This is a suicide prevention hotline for trans folks, by trans folks. I’m REALLY concerned about “suicide contagion” after the tragic death of Leelah Alcorn, so please reblog this as vigorously as you can. 

[dynastylnoire]

boooooooooooooooooooooooost

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[leo-is-back]

Eternal struggle of am I attracted to you or do I want to look like you?

[leo-is-back]

Talking to My Friend Leo and His Girlfriend Kameo

Leo: Do you know Andrew's last name?

Kameo: No I don't...

Kameo: ...Centrism

[ratladyme]

[amelancholywood]

I LITERALLY THINK THIS EVERY TIME THE SONG COMES ON

[disastergwenom]

What song is this talking about?

[the8thsphynx]

'Baby It's Cold Outside'

Otherwise known as the original ‘Blurred Lines’

[masquerading-as-a-genius]

HEY FRIENDS HISTORICAL REMINDER: ‘WHAT’S IN THIS DRINK’ ISN’T TALKING ABOUT DRUGS, HE IS NOT TRYING TO ROOFIE HER

THE SONG IS TALKING ABOUT ALCOHOL

but still a pushy song

[aphony-cree]

historical reminder that the reason pina coladas and pink squirrels are known as “girly drinks” is because they mask the taste of alcohol and men were know to give women these drinks without informing them that they were alcoholic. It takes a couple of drinks to realize you’ve been consuming alcohol and by then you’re more susceptible to suggestion, making it easier for him to convince you to stick around and have a third drink. When this song was written in 1944 most women didn’t drink regularly, meaning they had a low tolerance and it would only take 2-3 drinks to get her drunk enough that she wouldn’t be able to put up much of a fight. This was the 1940s version of being roofied

[dangerwaffle-deactivated2016121]

No no no it was not.

"Hey what’s in this drink" was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol. 

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because unlike in Blurred Lines, the woman actually has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

[tiptoe39]

I feel so much better about this song now!!!

[cestmoimaintenant]

that explanation is so much better, because its clear in her singing and her voice that she is happy, so the “fact” that it was “about coercion and rape” totally didn’t make sense to me. thank you for historical context.

[ginnydiarchive]

THANK you

[fanboy-trav-deactivated20190424]

Reading this was like listening to a teacher ask you what the author’s chapter was about.

[actual-cannibal-shia-laboeuf]

Spread this shit around tumblr right now.

4 chan users are planning to trigger transgender people by posting pictures and sending asks on tumblr. They are hoping to drive trans people to suicide. Here is a source. Be aware the bottom part of this page...